TED Talks / ТЕД гост лектори

Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

1. Know your goal of storytelling
- “Storytelling is knowing that everything from your first to your last sentence is leading to a singular goal."
- “Stories confirm who we are. And nothing does a greater affirmation than when we connect through stories."

2. Make the audience care
- “Make me care, please, emotionally, intellectually, aesthetically, just make me care."

3. Make the audience put things together
- “We are born problem solvers. We are compelled to deduce, and to deduct."
- "Don’t give the audience the entire story. Don’t give them 4. Give them 2+2."

4. Find the “spine” that drive your main character’s decisions
- “All well-drawn characters have a spine. The character has an inner motor, a dominant, unconscious goal that they're striving for, an itch that they can’t scratch."

5. Embrace changes in your stories
- "Change is fundamental in stories."
- “If things go static, stories die, because life is never static."

6. Construct anticipation with uncertainty
- “Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty."

7. Make your audience like your main character
- Make your main character likable

8. Have a theme
- “A strong theme is always running through a well-told story."

9. Invoke wonder
- “Have them surrender to wonder."
- “The best story infuses wonder."

10. Express values you personally feel deep inside
- “Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesn’t always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experience, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core."


 Roselinde Torres: What it takes to be a great leader

 "Great leaders are shaping their future, not just reacting to it."

"Great leaders understand that having a more diverse network is a source of pattern identification at greater levels and also of solutions, because they have people who are thinking differently than they are."

"Great leaders dare to be different."

"The best leadership development doesn't happen by just going off to a course or a seminar… The best leadership development happens when people are learning in the context of their own strategic, economic agenda, with the actual people that they are going to influence and lead."


David Logan: Tribal leadership 

"Leaders need to be able to talk all the levels so that you can touch every person in society. But you don't leave them where you found them. Okay?"

 

Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead 

"A leader isn't  good because he is right; he is good because he is willing to learn and to trust."

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders 

"No one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success."

"Don't leave before you leave. Stay in."

John Wooden: The difference between winning and succeeding

"If you make an effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not necessarily what you'd want them to be but they will be about what they should."

"Success is: Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable."

"Whatever you are doing you must be patient."


Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one

"If I can can, you can can."

Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers

"Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take actions to champion them... Originals drive creativity and change in the world." 

"To be original you don't have to be first. You just have to be different and better."

"When you feel doubt, don't let it go."

"The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they are the ones who try the most."

"The originals, they are not different from us."

"Being original is not easy but I have no doubt about this: it is the best way to improve the world around us."

Scott Dinsmore:  How to find and do work you love

"If we don't know what we are looking for we are never going to find it."

"Everything was impossible before someone did it."

"When ordinary people are doing the extraordinary and we can be around them - it becomes normal."

"It isn't about being Gandhi or Steve Jobs, or something crazy, it is just about doing something that matters to you and it is the impact that only you can make."

"What seems impossible can become the new normal."

 

Silvia Mineva / Силвия Минева

"Back to ethics!"

"Назад към етиката!"

"Because ethics is the key of the supreme art - the art of living ... humanly."

"Защото етиката е разковничето на най-висшето изкуство - изкуството да се живее... по човешки."

Marianne Williamson / Мариан Уилямсън

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." 

"Най-дълбокият ни страх не е да бъдем непълни. Най-дълбокият ни страх е, че сме силни отвъд границата."

C.S Lewis / Клайв Стейпълс Луис

 

 

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."

"Нямаш душа. Ти си душа. Имаш тяло."

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different..."

"Не е ли смешно как ден след ден нищо не се променя, но когато се обърнеш назад и всичко е различно..." 

Zig Ziglar / Зиг Зиглър

            

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

"Не е необходимо да си велик, за да започнеш, но е необходимо да започнеш, за да станеш велик."

"People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily."

"Хората често казват, че мотивацията не трае дълго. Не трае дълго и къпането - затова го препоръчваме всекидневно."

"You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want."

"Ще получиш всичко, което искаш в живота, ако помагаш достатъчно на другите хора да получат това, което искат."

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it."

"Ако можеш да си го представиш, можеш и да го постигнеш."

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." 

"Поведението ти, не способностите ти, ще определят височината ти."

Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ралф Уолдо Емерсън

           

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great man have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age…"

"Доверете се на себе си: всяко сърце вибрира на тази желязна струна. Приемете мястото, което божественото провидение е намерило за вас, обществото на вашите съвременници, последователността на събитията. Великите хора винаги са правели така и детински са се доверявалина гения на тяхното време..."

"Never imitate."

"Никога не имитирай."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

"Единствено вие самите можете да достигнете мир."

"I must be myself."

"Трябва да бъда себе си."

"Success is to laugh frequently, to win the respect of intelligent people and the love of children... to appreciate that which is beautiful, to discover the best in others, to leave the world a bit better place... to know, that even only one person is living easily because you've been living. That is success!"

"Успех е да се смееш често и по много, да спечелиш уважението на интелигентни хора и обичта на децата... да цениш красивото, да откриваш най-доброто у другите, да оставиш света малко по-добър... да знаеш, че дори един човек диша по-леко, защото те е имало. Това е успех!"

"My life is for itself and not for a spectacle."

"Животът ми е за самия себе си и не е спектакъл."

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."

"Който ще бъде човек, трябва да бъде нонконформист."

"There is time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

"Има време във възпитанието на всеки човек, когато той стига до убеждението; че завистта е невежество; че имитацията е самоубийство."

 

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

"Във всяка гениална творба разпознаваме отхвърлените си мисли; те се връщат отново при нас със сигурно отчуждено величие."

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius."

"Да вярваш в собствените си мисли, да вярваш, че това което е вярно за личния ти живот е вярно за всички хора - това е гениалност."

"Man’s prayers are a disease of the will."

"Човешките молитви са болест за волята."

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."

"Култивирайте навика да сте благодарни за всяко добро нещо, което ви се случва, и да се отблагодарявате продължително. И защото всичко допринася за вашето развитие, трябва да включите всичко във вашата благодарност."

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."

 "Развивайте навика да бъдете благодарни за всяко добро нещо, което идва при вас, и да благодарите непрекъснато. И тъй като всички неща са допринесли за вашия напредък, трябва да включите всички неща във вашата благодарност."

"Hero is the one who is always focused."

 "Герой е този, който е неизменно съсредоточен."

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

"Най-хубавото на старите приятели е това, че можеш да си позволиш да бъдеш глупав заедно с тях."

"Everything good is on the highway."

"Всичко добро се намира на големия път."

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

"Имай вяра на себе си: във всяко сърце вибрира тази желязна нишка." 

"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."

"С последователността, великата душа няма работа."

"Insist on yourself; never imitate."

"Бъди себе си; никога не имитирай."

"The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"Великият човек, заобиколен от тълпата, успява с перфектна сладост да запази независимостта на уединението."

"Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing."

"Автентичните ви действия ще се самообосноват и ще обосноват другите ви автентични действия. Вашето подчинение не обяснява нищо."

"We are afraid of  truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death and afraid of each other."

"Страх ни е от истината, страх ни е от щастието, страх ни е от смъртта и ни е страх един от друг."

"The years teach much of what days do not know."

"Годините учат на много от това, което дните не знаят."

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decided to be."

"Единствената личност, която съдбата ти е отредила да бъдеш е личността, която сам си решил да бъдеш."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"Да бъдеш себе си в свят, който постоянно се опитва да направи нещо друго, това е най-голямото постижение." 

"Although we scour the world to find the beautiful, we must bear it with us, otherwise we will not find it."

"Въпреки че преброждаме света, за да открием красивото, ние трябва да го носим в себе си, иначе не ще го намерим!" 

"In life we find only what we put in it."

"В живота намираме само това, което сами влагаме в него."

"No one but yourself can get you away from the ultimate success."

"Никой освен теб самия не може да те откъсне от крайния успех."

"Good jobs are reached by people who prove their ability to grow over the others."

"Високите работни места се достигат от хора, които докажат своята способност да израснат над другите."

"Everyday is the best of the year."

"Всеки ден е най-добрият от годината."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"Какво е останало зад нас и какво ни  предстои, това са дреболии, в сравнение с това, което се намира вътре в нас."